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Shot glasses - Bio expedition in Anorí

While the peace process in Colombia is being consolidated, the territories formerly occupied by some armed groups have become post-conflict landscapes with areas of rich and uncharted biodiversity.

With the aim of exploring such territories, I was part of a team that in 2018 carried out a natural science project with ex-combatants, community leaders and biology researchers in Anorí region.

My role was to design a combination of participatory methods and visual modes of representation to translate questions about the natural world into social action.

In doing so, I added an aesthetic element to the project that provided the means to enact the dense human-nonhuman interactions that characterised different forms of bio-knowledge.

My project’s research strategies were materialised in a series of workshops in Medellín and Anorí during a six-month period, and they were developed and created with the collaboration of all participants.

To highlight the idea of collective experimentation and learning, my goal was to increase mutual trust and to enrich discussion among this heterogeneous group of people.

As a result, the participants and I decided to create a series of shot glasses (images were printed on the base of the glass; however, due to the optical effect of a special lens, these only became visible when the light refraction changed after a liquid was introduced).

This video was done as part of the artist residency at the Saari Residence, maintained by Kone Foundation [Tämä teos on toteutettu Koneen Säätiön ylläpitämän Saaren kartanon taiteilija- ja tutkijaresidenssissä].

During this residency I also wrote an academic paper exploring the ethnographic and aesthetic concept behind the project (this paper was published by Leonardo at MIT Press: doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02060 ).

More info about the project is available here: erratico.info/Anori

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